The Nugget Newspaper - News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

Pat Mostek met her husband Stephen in high school when she was 14 years old. He was 15. Stephen was sitting behind her in study hall, and one of Pat's friends commented on how good-looking the boy was. Pat pulled out a makeup mirror and took a look for herself.

"Our eyes met - and that was it," she recalled.

She knew this was who she was going to marry.

"No doubts," she said.

Marry they did - and that marriage lasted 65 years, until Stephen's passing a couple of years ago.

Now Pat is living at The Lodge in Sisters, where there is a new, lovingly created display honoring the life-long love stor...